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Police have identified the man they say broke into an East Side home on Wednesday and died after
being shot by a resident.

Quenton Savage, 29, climbed into a second-floor window at 3117 Easthaven Dr. S. about 2:15 p.m.,
police said, and the 19-year-old man who lived there confronted the intruder.

Donald Griffin III, who lives at the house with his mother and sister, was watching television
and heard a noise upstairs, police said. He told detectives he got a handgun and went upstairs,
where he saw Savage and shot at him. Savage fell from a bedroom window onto a concrete patio and
was pronounced dead at the scene.

Last night, county Coroner Jan Gorniak confirmed that Savage died from being shot and not the
fall. She said he had been shot more than once in his chest.

Sgt. Steven Little, of the Police Division’s homicide squad, said it appeared that Griffin might
have fired the handgun more than once.

Records show that Savage lived in Cleveland. He was released in December after more than a year
in prison on drug-trafficking and drug-possession convictions. He also spent five months in prison
in 2008 for possessing drugs and smuggling them into a detention facility.

Griffin, who cooperated and told police that he acted in self-defense, was not charged. Results
of the investigation will be forwarded to the Franklin County prosecutor’s office, which probably
will present the case to a grand jury for a decision on whether to file charges.